Goggle Fun!

Wow, I am so behind on blogging! Life has just been speeding by.... But this week we are all on SPRING BREAK! Yeah a much needed break from our normal routines. We plan to relax, a lot! and see a couple towns outside of Lisbon that we haven't visited yet.

So this is just a quick update to let you know that I haven't forgotten about the blog and I do plan to catch up while we have a break.

The other day we found goggles on sale and so Sahara and Tirza used their own money to buy some for the pool. Bria was holding out for a new jump rope but we couldn't find a kid sized one so she went back and got goggles too. (Umma we are thinking you might have better luck finding jump ropes!)

The other big happening that I haven't blogged yet is the BIG field trip that Sahara and Bria went on... their last day of class before Spring Break was a trip to a town called Evora, about an hour away from Lisbon. The school took ALL the kids from age 5 up to 4th grade. They had 3 giant charter buses, the kids all wore matching hats and off they went for the day. The girls had a blast! And the trip had a special meaning as well... at Christmas time and the kids made crafts and sold them in a Christmas store at the school, then they collected clothes, toys, car seats, baby stuff.... this trip was to take all this to an orphanage in Evora. The kids got to see the orphanage that they has worked to help. The kids from the orphanage were in school so they didn't get to see them, Sahara was disappointed, but I think that was so the other kids weren't embarrassed. They saw the town, which we haven't even seen yet, had a picnic and then came home. We didn't get much info about the town from them, bascially we know they played on some rocks... guess we will just have to go see Evora for ourselves!